Robert Fisk, a world renowned Middle East correspondent for London's "Independent," currently resides in Beirut. Fisk has covered the conflict in Northern Ireland, Israeli invasions of Lebanon, the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Gulf War, wars in Bosnia and Algeria, the NATO war with Yugoslavia, and the Palestinian uprisings. Fisk was the winner of the Amnesty International UK Press Awards in 1998 for his reports from Algeria and in 2000 for his articles on NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. He was awarded the John Hopkins SIAS-CIBA prize for international journalism. Fisk is the author of three books: "The Point of No Return: The Strike which Broke the British in Ulster" (1975), "In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster, and the Price of Neutrality" (1982, 1983), and "Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War" (1990, 1992). Most recently Fisk contributed a chapter to "Iraq Under Siege: the Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War" (2000).